In the Age of Empires IV official page it shows that the aproximate size is 93 GB:
Link here:
For comparison:
Age of Empires DE: ~12GB
Age of Empires II DE: ~ 41 GB
Age of Empires III DE: ~ 38 GB
(Source: Steam Library → Properties → Local Files)
What do you think about that? Does this mean that Age of Empires IV will have a lot of content compared with the previous games?
That is the age range they would want according to them
I find it hard to believe that the specs will be very high. Unless they did nothing for optimization, the graphics shown were not top notch graphics. If it really is 93 GB, what the heck is taking up all that space?
Maybe it has a lot of different texture qualities. Adam Isgreen literally said (if I remember well) that they want that every PC is able to run the game, from High Spec to Potato.
Yes, from very low to high quality/resolution. If this is the case, I hope they can put the biggest textures as a free DLC, like in Age II DE, so people that is not going to use them don’t have to download them.
For comparison, Battlefront 2 is 80 GB on my Xbox One. There better be a buttload of content, because Battlefront 2 has a buttload and this is more than that.
I remember from when I was a kid, whe installing the original Age of Empires, that the game installer asked if you wanted to install the cutscenes or not. If you installed them, the game was like the double size.
EDIT: I have just checked it. Installing Age of Empires: Gold Edition with cutscenes: 226 MB. Without cutscenes: 94 MB.
Rome total war 2 (base game) was 35GB when it first came out and that has much more detailed graphics and whatnot, so this game needing 93GB is insane.
The only thing that I can think of is all of the cinematic documentaries that they have briefly talked about for the campaigns that take up half of this space.
If I had a 500 GB HDD it would be a problem. But that’s what I had in 2009 in my budget computer.
Disk storage is cheap, especially HDDs.
Look at what a 8TB HDD costs.
AoE4 is just a bit more than 2x from AoE3DE (System requirements say 42 GB)
Especially 4k cinematic cost a lot of disk space.